Xi Jinping gave Donald Trump rose seeds to plant at the White House — and almost nothing else. After two days in Beijing's grandest halls, the world's two biggest powers walked away with pageantry, no breakthroughs, and a fresh warning abou
Move your AI startup's headquarters from Beijing to Singapore, sell it to Meta for $2bn, exit cleanly. That was the plan — until China killed it and exposed a loophole the entire tech world had been quietly using.
A swarm of speedboats — some little more than racing yachts with machine guns bolted on — is keeping a fifth of the world's oil hostage and embarrassing the US Navy.
India's economy has balanced on a single trick for twenty years: sell foreign software, buy foreign oil. A speculative research note argues AI is about to shatter both halves of that equation at once.
Nintendo just sold almost 20 million Switch 2 consoles in a year — and still had to apologize and raise prices. The villain isn't greed; it's a global memory-chip shortage.
For three years, AI hype has been all about Nvidia's GPUs. But suddenly, the unsexy chips and dusty software companies of 'Old IT' are roaring back — and Wall Street is scrambling to figure out why.
A deadly virus carried by rats in Argentina somehow ended up killing passengers on a high-end Antarctic cruise — and now a dozen countries are scrambling to contain it.
China just blocked Meta from buying an AI startup that isn't even Chinese anymore — a $2bn shot across Silicon Valley's bow weeks before Trump and Xi sit down to talk.
A miracle drug that helps millions lose weight is colliding with a brutal corporate reality: somebody has to pay for it, and employers are increasingly saying 'not us.'
For ten years, the UAE quietly capped its own oil production to keep Saudi Arabia solvent. Then a war with Iran exposed the bill — and Abu Dhabi decided it was done paying.
What if you could place a bet on a secret military raid — and win big because you knew it was coming? That's exactly the fear haunting Polymarket right now.
Two hundred years ago, only 12% of adults could read — and as literacy spread, human brains physically rewired. AI may be the next rewiring, except it's happening at warp speed.
A 109-year-old Japanese company famous for high-tech toilets just became one of the year's hottest AI stocks — without making a single chatbot, GPU, or data center.
Everyone says AI will gut India's outsourcing industry. A contrarian analyst crunched the numbers and found the opposite — and what he found could reshape the entire global economy.
An AI model costing four cents per task is about to vaporize $2.85 billion in human labor — and the company selling that AI captures less than 1% of the value it destroys.
Imagine paying your boss a million rubles just to get medical leave after being shot. For Russian soldiers in Ukraine, that's not a metaphor — it's the price list.
Imagine if every app on your phone was as disposable as a Shein top — built in an afternoon, worn for a season, then replaced without a second thought. That world is arriving now.
India just overtook Japan to become the world's fourth-largest economy — but a leaked Bernstein letter to its Prime Minister warns the next decade could decide whether that rise is real or a mirage.
A naval blockade in a waterway most teenagers couldn't find on a map is quietly rewriting what next year's groceries will cost — and farmers half a world away are already paying the price.
Imagine cheating on a test by secretly photographing every answer the smartest kid writes — then selling your knockoff version for a tenth of the price. That's what the White House just accused China of doing to American AI.